Word: existing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become student's notes and the subjects of annual examinations. As a result there is little breadth to teaching styles and the process, to a great extent, has become predictable, uniform, and for the student unexciting. Accomplishment, for the student, is almost totally in terms of passing examinations; there exist too few opportunities to analyze or compare ideas, to discover meaning for oneself, or to create anew, all of which are requirements of maturing scholarship...
...with him a set of proposals for peace. As worked out in Yugoslavia, a proper compromise would require Israel to withdraw from the Arab territories it now occupies, while the Arab nations would declare an end to belligerency with Israel, thus in effect recognizing Israel's right to exist as a nation. Though the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba would revert to Egyptian control, Israeli ships would be guaranteed free passage...
...they are stereotypes only because they exist profusely in life, as Novelist Kaufman came to realize in her 17 years of teaching. Her book is more than a gallery of grotesques; it evokes the frustration of the teacher smothered under a mountain of paperwork created by today's urban educational bureaucracies. In presenting the gallery without the guts, the producers offer an attractive movie while overlooking a potentially important...
...develop a mechanical strawberry harvester, Oregon State University scientists are experimenting with 6,000 varieties of berry to find one suitable for machine picking. The impact of mechanization is such, predicts International Harvester Economist Dr. L. S. Fife, that crops failing to lend themselves to mechanization "will cease to exist as common commodities. They will become delicacies obtainable only at high cost through scarce hand labor...
Formidable Challenge. The larger production units were created in the hope that British steel will become more competitive. For the time being, all 14 nationalized companies will continue to exist "supported and advised" by Lord Melchett's four boards of regional directors. They will then gradually take over the functions of individual company boards. Duplication will-hopefully-be eliminated from the start, and services and supply of raw materials streamlined to attain greater efficiency. The four units will not compete with each other in price, but in service, quality and productivity. "We will throw up real savings...